Welcome to the summer 2018 Dylan Thomas news round-up. Portrait purchased by National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery has acquired a portrait of the young Dylan Thomas by Augustus John. The painting, one of two portraits of Dylan completed… Read More ›

Welcome to the winter news round-up where we take a look back at the second half of 2017 and look forward to 2018. In print we saw a new US edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas (edited by John… Read More ›

Welcome to the summer 2017 Dylan Thomas news round-up. In our first update since January we look back at the third International Dylan Thomas Day in May, and at the award of the 2017 Dylan Thomas Prize. We also look at… Read More ›

May 14 2017 marked the third International Dylan Thomas Day, an annual day of celebration on the anniversary of the first ever stage production of Dylan Thomas’s best known work, Under Milk Wood. Each year, users of social media are… Read More ›

On May 14th 2017 we will celebrate the third annual International Dylan Thomas Day. We’re taking a look back at the first two years and sharing images of some of the many celebrations that have taken place. The launch event… Read More ›

2016 will perhaps be remembered most for the tumultuous political events that took place on both sides of the Atlantic, with the Brexit vote in the UK, and the election of Donald Trump in the US. In America at least, Dylan Thomas seems to have become a go-to-poet when words are required to express the emotions stirred by those political events. […]